MAIN RESULTS OF THE SATELLITE SURVEY OF THE BALTIC AND CASPIAN SEAS: SURFACE OIL POLLUTION

摘要

This paper summarizes some of the main results of many-year satellite monitoring conducted in aquatic areas of the Baltic and Caspian Seas. Starting from 2009 up to 2012 a satellite survey of the central and south-eastern zones of the Baltic Sea and the central zone of the Caspian Sea was carried out by the Space Radar Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of RAS. The main attention was focused on the detection of oil pollutions as well as biogenic and anthropogenic surfactant films.